Lab 00

Hello, World!

You may have heard/seen this phrase, Hello, World!, elsewhere before. Learning to write a computer program to print this sentence to your screen is often the first thing you learn in programming.

To make sure you are ready use a computer program () to work with data, this lab will set you up to use to print this sentence to your screen.

Computational toolkit:

  1. : The programming language you’ll learn in this course.

  2. RStudio: The software you’ll use to write R code in.

Note

R is the name of the programming language itself and RStudio is a convenient interface.

  1. Quarto: The tool you’ll use to create reproducible computational documents. Every piece of assignment you hand in will be a Quarto document.

Note

You are likely familiar with word processors like MS Word or Google Docs. We will not be using these in this class. Instead, the words you would write in such a document, as well as your R code, will go into a Quarto document. You will render the document (more on what this means later) to get a document out that has your words, code, and the output of that code. Everything in one place, beautifully formatted!